Everyone has there own style of writing, organizing, and note taking but the most effect for a research writer is systematically and consistently. While taking notes it is important to stay organized and one way you can do that is to stick to the same form; don't do some notes on post-its and some on your phone, pick one so that if you ever need to go back to it you'll know exactly where it is.
This chapter helped me the most avoiding plagiarism. While writing your paper you want to be sure to avoid plagiarism. Theses are some tips from the Bedford Researcher to help you.
quote directly- while quoting a source directly you should:
- Open and close the quote with quotation marks.
- Identify the source ( according to...)
- Give a page number or paragraph if you're using a source without a page number.
- Use an ellipse. Say you only want to use bits of information from a source so you take a chunk of the quote or passage out. An ellipse indicate that you've taken some information out. it should contain 3 spaced periods and should look like ( . . . )
- Modify your quote using brackets. You may need to do this for your readers so that they may have a fuller understanding of the quote you are using. if your quote identifies someone as "he", "she" or " they" you should use brackets to specify who is being talked about. for example " They went to school." would be changed to " they [Taylor and Eric ] went to school"
- Use " Sic" if the original quote has a typo simply quote the source as you found it and add " sic" in brackets [sic] to show that when you came across the quote the typo was already there.
- Use " in other words" so that it reminds you to reword and basically simplify the original statement.
- Don't forget to make sure your paraphrase is accurate.
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